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TIL Archaeologists unearth 5,000-year-old ‘third-gender’ caveman,

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LkZLm TIL that in other countries New Zealand, Belgium, Germany, etc. have their own exotic “American” food isles in grocery stores alot like how America has Mexican and Asian isles in their grocery stores (I lived in America for all of my life obviously)
MV47 TIL the BBC now owns the rights to the iconic police box
PYwoO TIL of Thomas Jones, a 14-year-old who broke into Buckingham Palace in 1838 and was caught with Queen Victoria's underwear stuffed down his trousers. After breaking in twice more, Jones was sentenced to hard labour, and after incarceration on a prison ship would later become the town crier of Perth.
oGv7 TIL; Google created a kill switch in case it’s A.I. project “DeepMind”, in case it attempts to resist human modifications to it’s learning or tries to create it’s own orders.
8gJb TIL that there is a card game called Mao in which new players are told only “the only rule you may be told is this one”, which means that new players have to discover the rules by themselves. The aim of the game is to be the first to get rid of all the cards in his hands without breaking any rules.